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       About images of war, he did predict the 
       By: Jabin Khatun Date: August 30, 2023, 1:42 am
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       The writer Paul Valéry had a premonition of this visual flood
       almost a century ago in his essay "The Conquest of Ubiquity"
       (1928): "Like water, like gas, like electric current, they come
       from afar to our dwellings to satisfy our needs» he wrote,
       «through an almost zero effort, so we will be fed by visual or
       auditory images, which will be born and vanish at the slightest
       gesture, almost with a sign». Although Valéry was not
       specifically talkingstate of the contemporary viewer. Not only
       is it no longer necessary to search for the images, but it has
       become virtually impossible to avoid them.
       How can writers and artists compete with this flood of
       documentary images? In On the Natural History of Destruction
       (1999), author WG Sebald showed how inadequate language is to
       the task of portraying the destruction of German cities by the
       Allies during World War II and its aftermath. "Where would a
       natural history of destruction have to begin?" Sebald wonders.
       "For an overview of the technical, organizational, and political
       requirements for carrying out large-scale attacks from the air,
       for a scientific description of the then unknown phenomenon of
       firestorms, for a pathographic record of Telegram Number Data
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       characteristic forms of death, or by
       behavioral psychological studies on the instinct to flee and
       return home?» Almost no German author wrote adequately on this
       subject for decades after the war.
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       There was no proper artistic representation of the complexities
       of wartime and postwar reality in Germany. Sebald describes an
       attack on the city of Hamburg in July 1943 as part of Operation
       Gomorrah, a campaign by the RAF and the US Air Force: "Behind
       the collapsing facades, flames rose up to the height of the
       houses, They rushed through the streets like a flood, at a speed
       of more than 150 kilometers per hour, and they circled like
       steamrollers on fire, with strange rhythms, in the open places.
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